Sentences with phrase «explained by evolutionary theory»

There is a popular perception that women reach their sexual peak after the age of 30 (men are thought to peak before 20) 1 and research supports this.2 Women are, in fact, shown to be more lustful in their early 30s; a phenomenon that can be explained by evolutionary theory.

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(5) Evolutionary theory is similarly influenced by the reductionistic bias of science, with its tendency to try to understand phenomena in terms of the simplest explanation (the law of parsimony) and to do so by always explaining higher orders of things in terms of lower orders — as if nothing significant were being omitted.
If evolutionary theory is replaced by a better theory that can explain the facts of evolution and make correct predictions, then science and the whole world has benefited.
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